Peter Jackson

Legendary special effects wizard and film pioneer Ray Harryhausen died today in London at the age of 92. If you watched any stop-motion animation movie over the past six decades you owe him a debt of gratitude. From 20 Million Miles to Earth and Jason and the Argonauts to One Million Years B.C. and the […]
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Here’s a roundup of movie news tidbits kicking around this week : ******************************************************************************************************************************************************************* Gangster Squad – the cops vs. mobsters tale set in 1940′s L.A. and starring Ryan Gosling, Sean Penn, Emma Stone and Josh Brolin – was originally set to open on Sept. 7, but has now been officially moved to Jan. 11, 2013. […]
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A little bit about me: I never read “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy. Nor “The Hobbit.” Not my genre, let’s say. But I loved, loved, LOVED the movies! Why couldn’t J.R.R. Tolkien have written a decalogy?! Well, in this week when director and “LOTR” masterpiece maker Peter Jackson has a new film out as […]
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The Adventures of Tintin: If any director had to have two movies coming out in the same week, and a holiday week, no less, and one is an epic tale of a boy and his horse during wartime which is based on an acclaimed novel that already spawned a technical marvel of a stage play […]
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